The International Consumer Electronics Show offers a vast and overwhelming panoply of products, with exhibitors ranging from tiny, two-man booths from unknown Taiwanese companies to 4+ acre spreads from Microsoft and Intel. In addition to CES exhibits in the Las Vegas Convention Center, vendors have invitation-only hospitality suites set up in various hotels around the Strip. With over 2,700 exhibitors from more than 140 countries, you're not going to see everything even if you spend every waking moment traipsing the show floor. What follows is a list of things which caught my eye, or that I thought were technically cool; it's in no way comprehensive, or even very organized, but should give you some idea of what the show was like.

2010 CES: Computer Technology Highlights @ Benchmark Reviews

"Thermal grease increases the thermal conductivity between your CPU and the heatsink. Each thermal compound is different and choosing the right one will keep your CPU running a few degrees cooler. It may not mean much, but if you are an overclocker or modder than you know how precious each degree or even a fraction of a degree is."

Another one of the best!

 

New gaming systems boast liquid cooling and an overclocked Core i7 with the option for Blu-Ray Burner and 80GB SSD

Creativity and imagination is in every one of us. Some are very creative and some not so much. These two important senses could be trained and when it comes to tools, our next product might be a great aid. I would like to say thanks to Wacom from providing us with this item for a review.

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch - Review

"For this review I will be looking at a new product from a very well-known and respected pc hardware manufacturer. That manufacturer is Chieftec and the product under review is the first mini itx case made by Chieftec, the Chieftec BT-02B."

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Cooler Master has created a mouse that is truly intended for the gaming community and added huge amounts of style plus tons of customizations to make it like no other mouse in this market. Cooler Master has taken a radial direction with using the Philips laser for the medical field to beef up an extremely accurate mouse. On paper this makes for the perfect mouse.

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"The Thermaltake SpinQ VT is nothing short of impressive. With an impressive body design and heatpipe layout the SpinQ VT is a rock solid cooler. With easy installation, exceptional cooling, and a decent price of $59.99 it's definitely worth taking a look at."

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The SandForce SF1500 SSD processor is an Enterprise-class Solid State Drive technology that powers products such as the OCZ Vertex-2 Pro. With a potential top-speed of 260 MBps read and write bandwidth, the SandForce SF1500-based SSD series will push SATA-II to the limit. In this article Benchmark Reviews investigates the technology behind the SandForce SF1500 SSD processor, and tests bandwidth speed and IOPS performance.

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When Cooler Master released its 690 chassis over two years ago, we're doubtful that even it could have predicted just how well-received it was going to be. It did a lot right in terms of design and function, and with the 690 II, those two factors are pushed even further. The result? The best $100 chassis we've ever looked at, bar none.

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The question that probably stumped so many this past holiday season, what do you get the guy with everything? If you can't afford the latest sports car on the market, having the newest technology on hand is probably the next best thing possible. With the Plextor PX-B940SA, you get just that. This is the fastest Blu-ray writer currently available on the market. How long that lasts is a completely different topic.

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CES is finally over (has been for several days), and a lot of things were shown. Some were really cool new things, while others were just updated models or those with an increase in speed/capacity. Instead of focusing on the many SSDs or USB 3.0 enclosures that dominated a good part of the show, we will focus on a broad range of other new products in this article.

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SEIDIO RELEASES DESKTOP CRADLE & INNOTRAVELER CAR KIT FOR MOTOROLA DROID

Today, a new Vampire Weekend three-song track pack is available for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero.  The popular band returns to the Guitar Hero franchise with the Vampire Weekend Track Pack featuring two songs — “Cousins” and “Holiday” — from their brand-new album Contra as well as “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” from their 2008 self-titled debut album Vampire Weekend.   The Vampire Weekend Track Pack is now available via Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 440 Microsoft Points, from the PlayStation Store for $5.49 and the Wii Shop Channel for 550 Wii Points.  The three songs are also available as single downloads for Xbox 360 for 160 Microsoft Points, PlayStation 3 for $1.99 and Wii for 200 Wii Points each.

 

Today we are taking a look at a very SMALL HTPC from Asrock, they sent us a sample of their ION 300HT-BD where the BD stands for a Bluray Drive so we can use Bluray on this small HTPC. It seems quite competetive towards its competitors with good features and very small size so lets have a look at how it will perform.

Asrock ION 330HT-BD Nettop @ Rbmods

"The GD80 is one of MSIs top offering for the users that want to use the newest LGA1156 socket CPUs."

MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard for LGA1156 CPUs reviewed in Metku.net

Intel's new Core i5 661 processor combines graphics controller, memory controller, PCI-Express interface and a Dual Core all inside one compact processor package. Utilizing Intel's latest 32 nm process there is quite some added potential for power saving and overclocking, but is the integrated chipset up to the task too?

Network attached storage can offer all sorts of advantages over regular external hard drives. For starters, you have the ability to easily access its stored data on any computer that is connected to your home network. Thanks to configurations that allow for multiple hard drives, you can also added capacity, as well as data redundancy in case something should go awry.

A Futurelooks News Flash - Thecus N0503 ComboNAS Enclosure Review

Today the first part of a RoundUp series stands on the program. The 120-mm-Lüfter makes the beginning, from which we test altogether 25 different copies in two comparisons extensively. Alphapetisch are sorted in first of the two Roundups representatives by Arctic Cooling, Coolink, Cooltek, Easy new facts, Enermax, Gelid Solutions, Nanoxia, Noctua and Noiseblocker. How the first 15 candidates in our Testparcour strike themselves, experience you on the following pages.

120-mm-Lüfter RoundUp V3.0

A lot of excitement and mystery has surrounded Nvidia’s Fermi. What are its specs going to be? Will it beat the reigning single core graphics performance king, the 5870? Well as of today some of that mystery has been revealed; Nvidia officially lifted the Non-Disclosure

Nvidia GF100 Fermi specs and preliminary benchmarks revealed @ eTeknix.com

Nvidia announced the Fermi architecture with the GF100 GPU and are showing details of their upcoming video cards.

Here's a summary of nVidia's Fermi news around the web:
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